Out This Week: New releases

Tuesday

Aug 30, 2011 at 12:01 AMAug 30, 2011 at 10:42 AM

Just My Type: A Book About Fonts , Simon Garfield: Everything that anyone ever wanted to know about typography is covered in a fascinating look at 500 years of typefaces, what they mean and how they subtly affect readers.

BOOKS

 Just My Type: A Book About Fonts , Simon Garfield: Everything that anyone ever wanted to know about typography is covered in a fascinating look at 500 years of typefaces, what they mean and how they subtly affect readers.

 Other notable releases: fiction  Kill Me if You Can, James Patterson & Marshall Karp; We the Animals, Justin Torres; nonfiction  In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir, Dick Cheney with Liz Cheney; What It Is Like To Go to War, Karl Marlantes

DVDS

 Madeas Big Happy Family (PG-13): In another chapter of the soap opera about a bickering family, a cancer-stricken member (Loretta Devine) gathers her relatives to break the news. Tyler Perry, in drag, again plays the maternal title character. (See review, Page D3.)

 Other notable releases: Desperate Housewives: The Complete Seventh Season, Forks Over Knives, House: Season Seven, Parenthood: Season 2, Prom, Sons of Anarchy: Season 3, The Vampire Diaries: The Complete Second Season

 Other notable releases: The Rip Tide, Beirut; Ghost on the Canvas, Glen Campbell; Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down, Ry Cooder; August and Everything After: Live at Town Hall, Counting Crows; Nothing but the Beat, David Guetta; Ready for Confetti, Robert Earl Keen; Black and